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FASCINATING! GRIPPING! ADELE GARRISON'S LOVE SERIAL, REVELATIONS OF A WIFE." The Omaha Daily Bee BRIEF RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS THE WEATHER: Partly cloudy Monday, warmer in weit and central portions; i Tuesday fair and warmer. Hourly temperature: S a. m 61 I p. m ! 4 . m t t p. m il , '; 7 a. m t S p. ni fl'l ' K a. an 4 p. m AH . T$ a. m M A p. m 7 . :! 10 ft. m (M C p. m ,5J - - , 11 a. m 7 p. m SI ' " j IS , m. ...... .SI $ p. m 67 ; ADJUTANT GENERAL OF OREGON TO RESIGN. Portland. Ore., June 1 Col. John L. May. adjutant general of Oregon since his return from France, where he commanded the 162d infantry, an nounced today his resignation from the office of adjutant general. He will return to his former position as assistant superintendent of the Port land division of the Southern Pacific company. TO PROTEST AGAINST BAN ON .FOREIGN LANGUAGE. Rochester, N. Y. June 1. Repre sentatives of the German language group of the national socialist party, ! at a meeting in the labor lyceum here today, decided to make formal pro-, test against the exclusion of radical foreign language groups from the party, which was accomplished by the executive committee-of the party at its recent Chicago meeting. HUGE CROWD GREETS CREW OF NC-4 AT LONDON. London, June 1. The crews of the three American naval seaplanes came to London this afternoon and were given a typical reception as their train stopped at Paddinglon station. American sailors and sol (Hers rushed for the car that con tained Lieut. Commander A. C. Read, who brought the NC-4 safely across the Atlantic, seized him and bore him on their shoulders up and down the platform and then to an automobile for a parade. One of the first to reach the XC-4's commander after he came from the train was Harry G. Haw ker, who had attempted to shout his congratulations as Lieutenant Com mander Read was being jostled about on the shoulders and heads of a score of men. The daring British aviator, who had wired his congratu lations to the crew of the NC-4 at Plymouth, had arrived at the sta lion half an hour ahead of the train. The huge crowd outside the station cheered him and Mrs. Hawker as they drove up in their car. MID WEST ATHLETES TO COMPETE IN A. E. F. MEET. Ames, la.. June 1. Several star athletes of the middle west, here as a result of the Missouri Valley con ference track meet yesterday, left today for New York preparatory to sailing for France to compete in the A. E. F, meet. . Included in the list were Marshall Haddock, Kansas sprinter, and Wil liam Sylvester, Missouri hurdler. Hass, the Grinnell dash man, who has beaten all the mid-west sprint ers this year, also accompanied the men, although he was not selected to go abroad. He carried with him, however, a letter of recommendation signed by coaches, who urged that he be included. Sol Butler, of Dubuque, and Paul 1'rehn,. Camp Dodge wrestler, al ready had left for New York. MRS. JOHN ASTOR WEDS LORD RIBBLESDALE. . .London, June, l.-rln the column of paid marriage notices in the Times this morning is one saying that Mrs. Tohn Astor was married to Lord Ribblesdale Saturday at St. Mary s church, Bryanston Square, London. The Dailv Express identifies Mrs, i Astor as the first wife of the late John Jacob Astor of New lork. AWARDED D. S. C. FOR CAPTURE OF 49 GERMANS. Washington, June 1. Capture of 49 Germans single-handed at Con senvoye, France, last October, brought Pvt. Felix Bird, of the 132nd infantry, Chicago, a D. Is. U, the award of which was. announced to dav bv the war department. General Pershing, in a cablegram to the department, announced the awards of distinguished service crosses to 21 other officers and men Among them were: Sergt. Vivian Skogsburg, Afton, la.; Corp. Irwin Myers, Junction City, Kan., and Pvt. Arthur S. Long, Roberts, Mont. HAWKER GLAD NAVY AVIATORS GOT ACROSS. London. Tune 1. "It is a jolly fine effort and I am very glad they got across," was the comment of Harry G. Hawker when he learned of the arrival of the NC-4 at Plymouth. '"Immediately I learned the news I wired the crew my hearty congratulations on their splendid achievements. It was a splendidly organized flight. I am particularly glad it was the NC-4 because it had all the bad luck at the start." SAVINGS BANKS START LIFE AS HAND GRENADES. Washington, June 1. Savings banks that started life as hand gren ades intended for use" by the Ameri can expeditionary forces against the Germans will be distributed to school children who earn enough money vthis summer to buy War Savings" stamps. 1 Distribution of the banks, number ing 15,000,000, will be entirely under the direction of-the savings direct ors of the 12 federal reserve dis tricts. , PHILIPPINES TO ASK FOR COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE. Washington, June 1. A memorial asking for immediate and complete independence for the Philippines will be presented tomorrow by the Philippine mission to the United States at a joint committee of the senate on the Philippines and the house committee on insular affairs. MISSIONARY FINED 50 YEN FOR CARELESSNESS. Seul, Korea, June 1. The trial of the Rev. Eugene Bell, the Presby terian missionary of Shelbyville, Ky., charged with .criminal carelessness in accidentally causing the death of his wife and another missionary in an automobile accident last March, resulted in his conviction. The pun ishment inflicted was a fine of SO yen. Two Flyers Killed. 'New Haven, Conn., June 1. Lieut Melvin B. Kelleher, Frank lin, Ind., and Corp. Joseph Katz man, Brooklyn, army aviators from Mineola, N. Y- were killed this aft ernoon when their airplane collided with another machine while flying at a height of 1,000 feet near the Yale bowL VOL. 48. NO. 298. Germany hoped for PEACE OF JUSTICE Execution of Treaty More Than People Can Bear, ' Says Note From Count Rantzau. Washington, June 1. Germany, although realizing that she must make sacrifices to obtain peace, is convinced that the execution of the peace treaty as drawn is "more than the German people can bear." Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the German peace delega tion, thus sums up the attitude of the German nation towards the pro posed treaty of peace in note to the allied and associated oowers. outlining various German counter proposals. The German note, deliv ered to Premier Clemenceau, presi dent of the peac conference, last Thursday, was made public tonight by the state department. Justice Too Sacred. The German delegation nowhere i in its note asserts that it will refuse to sign the present treatv. but de clares on behalf of the German na tion that "even in her need, justice for her is too sacred a thing to al low her, to stoop to achieve condi tions which she cannot undertake to carry out." Exclusion of Germany from the league of nationsthe note asserts, means that in signing the peace treaty Germany would be executing a "decree for its own proscription, nay, its own death sentente." The German people, thft.note says, have been disappointed in their hope for a peace of justice which hid been promised, and stand "aghast" at the demands made upon them by the "victorious violence of our en emies." Agree to Smaller Army. The German delegation agrees to reduction of Germany's army and navy on condition that Germany be admitted immediately to the league of nations; to renounce Germany's sovereign rights in Alsace-Lorraine and Posen, but as to all other terri tories which Germany is called up on to give up, the principle of self determination, applicable at once, is asked, to subject all German col onies to administration by the league of nations, but under Ger man mandatory and to make the indemnity payments. as required, but in amounts that will burden the Ger man taxpayer no more heavily than the taxpayer of the most heavily burdened among those represented on the reparations commission. The note declares Germany is will ing to pool her entire merchant ma rine with that of the associated pow ers. Neutral participation in the in quiry as to responsibility for the war is asked. Austrians to Receive Peace Terms Monday at St. Germain-en-Laye (By Associated Press.) The long waited presentation to the Austrians of the terms under which they may have peace with the allied and associated powers will take place Monday at St. Germain-en-Laye, a short distance outside Pans. The Austrians will learn only what they will have to do from the military and political standpoints and how their futures are to run. The cost to them financially in in demnities and reparations will be presented at a later date. Meanwhile commissions of the al lies are going through the German counter proposals to the German treaty and it is expected the reply will.be delivered during the present week. Sunday saw the council of four inactive, waiting the report of the commissions. Count von Brock dorff-Rantzau continues to assert the allied terms cannot be accepted as originally framed. Dies in Omaha From Wounds Received in Automobile Accident Samuel H. Lee, 56 years old, died in St. Catherine's hospital, Omaha, yesterday morning from injuries re ceived Wednesday in an automobile accident. He was crushed beneath the car in which he was riding when it overturned. Mr. Lee was an old resident of Avoca and the body will be taken there for burial. He had lived in the vicinity of Shelby and Avoca all his life. He is survived by his widow, six sons and one daughter. The sons are:. Warren W., Fremont, Neb.; Nathan. Battle Mountain, Neb.; Benjamin H., Har lan, and Ensley H., William M. and Cecil D. Lee, of Avoca. The daugh ter is Mrs. Oscar Rold, Avoca, . Extant u mom-Un Mtar May J. I MM, it Oaahi r. 0. alitor at al Mara 3. 1173. Taft and Others Protest Against Slaughter of Jews Ex-President Says League of Nations Will Make Perse cutions of Weaker Nationalities Impossible More Than 5,000 Attend Mass Meeting at Auditorium. Former President William How ard Taft, while unreservedly de nouncing the slaughter of Jews in roianci, uaiicia, Koumania and oth er east European countries, counsel ed caution and moderation to the 5,000 men and women of all creeds and nationalities who assembled at Jhe Auditorium at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon to protest against the per secution of the Jews in those coun tries. In an address so impassioned that his audience repeatedly rose to its feet to cheer his words, Rev. Frank G. Smith rebuked the Polish and other governments for the atrocities they perpetrate in the name of Chris tianity. Senator "Hitchcock, Mayor Smith and Rabbis Fredrick Cohn and Mor ris Taxon also addressed the meet ing. Telegrams from Archbi.wiop J. J. Harty and Congressman Jefferis, expressing sympathy with the pur poses of the meeting, were read by Henry Monsky, chairman of the oc casion. Resolutions Are Adopted. Resolutions calling upon the rep resentatives of the various countries I CROP AND ROAD DAMAGE CAUSED BY HEAVY RAINS Downpour Exceeds Three Inches in Some Places; Bottom Lands Flooded. Flood conditions prevailed in parts of Nebraska last night following a downpour of rain which in places exceeded three inches. . At Lincoln the fall was slightly over two and a half inches. Near Ashland, the fjottom lands are flood ed and railroad tracks washed over. The Platte river at that place is ris ing rapidly. There was a washout on the line of the Burlington rail road between Lincoln and Crete, making traffic unsafe on the main line of the road and trains for the west were rerouted at Lincoln by way of Aurora. At Beatrice a high wind accom panied the early stages of the storm and wheat fields were leveled. Small streams to the west of Lincoln are out of their banks. The Big Pappio has swelled be yond its banks 'and flooded West Dodge street, blocking all traffic on the Lincoln Highway for half a mile west of "Death . Curve." Civilian guards were on duty yesterday and last night turning motorists 'back on either side. I he little rappio, too, is reported to have overflown Picnic Stopped.. The steady downpour of rain checked picnics, base ball games and nearly every other out-of-door pas time scheduled for the day in Oma ha. About 10 o clock last night a crisp wind swept across this vicinity r-a made top coats tne most popu lar thing on the -street. The oart of the city west of For tieth was thrown into darkness shortly before midnight and. up to all early hour this morning the cause of the circumstance was unknown Aside from the usual damage to trees bv the wind, no material dam age was caused locally by yester day s storm. Snow in Denver. Denver, Colo., June 1. A heavy wet snow and the lowest June tern perature at 32 degrees in the history of the local weather bureau greeted the new month here today. Snow and rain was general over the north em and eastern sections of Colo rado and Wyoming. Killing frosts' were reported on the western slope at Grand Junction, Colo., and at banta re, N. M. Rains and snow were the cause of washouts on the Burlington, Rio Grande, and Union Pacific railroads, and a washout at Glenwood Springs delayed the troop train carrying Czecho-Slav soldiers from San Fran cisco to Hoboken for embarkation. The weather bureau reported the storm centered at Denver today and moving to the south. Snow was- reported at Cheyenne, Wyo.; Boulder, Colo.; Leadville, Ward, Risman, Lyons, Wall Street and Nederland, mountain towns, and rain in the eastern plains region. Afghan Main Offensive -Against Thai Develops London, June 1, via Montreal. The Afgan main offensive against Thai is developing. The latest official information from Simla, received May 29 and 30, shows that all attacks on Fort Thai have been repulsed. Air reconnaissance disclosed 3,500 of the enemv near Thai. Their camps were effectively bombed. At the capture of the Atgan tort of BaJdak. opposite Chaman, Ba luchistan, the British took 169 pris oners and killed 320 of the enemy. OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1919. at the peace conference to intervene in behalf of the persecuted Jews were read and unanimously adopted by those in attendance. President Wil son was especially urged to again voice his opinion of the cruelties perpetrated against the Jews. The resolutions requested that the peace conference delay recognition of the newly-formed Polish government until the rights of the minorities are guaranteed in that country. Speaking on the history of the Jewish people, Mr. Taft said: "The history of the Jewish 'people is f. history of sorrow, of man's in humanity to man, of the gratification of religious intolerance. Reading, it makes one blush for soir i of the ex ponents of Christianity." He told of the growth of the Jewish population in Poland as a result of a manifesto issued by one of the old Polish kings. This was in the form of a charter and guar anteed the rights of the Jews. The distinguished speaker described the oppression suffered by the Jews un der the yoke of the Russian czar after the dismemberment of Poland. Because of the chaotic conditions (Continued on Pace Two, Column Seven.) FOUR TAXIS IN PAIRS COLLIDE, WITH TWO HURT Cars of Omaha Taxi Company Crash Within Twenty Min utes' on the Same Corner. Four chauffeurs for the Omaha Taxicab Co. were arrested yester day afternoon when their four cars collided in pairs at Eleventh and Jackson streets, injuring one pas senger in each collision. At 4:10, an Omaha taxi driven by H. Meadows, 2223 Burt street col iided with an Omaha taxi driven by C. D. Wills, 524 South Twenty Fourth street, injuring George Gor ham, sr., 87 years old. Gorham suf fered severe cuts and bruises. He was attended by Dr. Follman and taken to his home, 2668 Capitol avenue. Meadows was driving on the wrong side of the street at a high rate of speed, according to the police report. Both drivers were arrested and held for investigation. Twenty minutes later two other of the companie's taxis came to gether at the same corner. Dan Ellender, Millard hotel, was driving one taxi and C. S. Richardson the other. In the collision, I. A. Lotz, or .New York, a , salesman, was severely cut across the back and head by flying glass. He was taken to Lister hospital and attended by Dr. kdstrom. In this case, too, both drivers were arrested and given cells adjoining their fellow work ers. Czecho-Slovak Heroes Will Not Reach Omaha Before 3:30 This P. M. Heavy rains resulting in numer ous washouts in Colorado in the last two days have caused another delay in the arrival in Omaha of the 100 Czecho-Slovak heroes. The men who were to arrive here at 6:45 this morning. The washouts have made this impossible and it is stated by the reception committee that the men will arrive in this city at 3:30 this afternoon. This is a second time that the arrival of these men has been delay ed. The original time set for their arrival was at 8 o'clock Sunday morning. The men have all been wounded and have seen more than four years ot service in Siberia and on the western front. A parade in honor of the wounded men is planned. They will be met at the depot by a committee com posed of local Bohemians, which will conduct them through the city. An official welcome will be extend ed them at the Auditorium where Mayor Smith will deliver an ad dress. Following this they will be taken to the homes of their countrvmen and lodged for the night. lhe contingent, only a handful of the former organization, came to this country from Siberia by way of San Francisco. Paris Metal Workers to Strike; May Tie Up Subway Paris, June 1. The metal workers in the region of Paris have decided to strike Monday because of differ ences with employers over the meth od of applying the new eight-hour law. The Temps estimates the strike will affect more than 200,000 workers- The secretary of the Subwav Em ployes' union announced today all underground lines in Paris will be tied up Tuesday if in the meantime the companies do not grant demands of the union. s. rui A PREMIER ANSWERS REQUESTS OF HUNS Says Representatives of En tire Community Should Col laborate on Labor Legisla tion; Denies Hun Claims. Paris, June 1. The arguments of Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau con cerning international labor legisla tion, were 'answered by Premier Clemenceau in a note delivered to the German delegation today. M. Clemenceau began by declaring that contrary to the German con tention not wage earners alone but representatives of the entire com munity should collaborate on labor legislation. He denied the German statement that the views and inter ests of governments are necessarily opposed to those of wage earners and pointed out that several truly democratic governments have labor representatives among their mem bers. He added the biting comment that such antagonisms are likely only under governments which are democratic in name only. The premier declared the allied and associated governments found in Count von Brockdorff-Ranfzau's note no practical indication of how his principles would find expression in the peace treaty. It was untrue, he said, that the claims of the Berne trades union congress had been disregarded. In this connec tion he referred to section 13 of the peace treaty and held that it was unnecessary for another congress to reiterate these claims. To Admit Labor Bodies! ' The allied and associated govern nients had agreed, M. Clemenceau said, to admit soon to international labor organizations representatives ot Oermany and would ask the Washington conference to grant them all rights and privileges as members. He submitted the resolu tion of the labor commission of the peace conference to the effect that regulations affecting seamen would be taken up' at a special session of the international conference. He al so submitted the labor commission's resolution tending to give its legis lation international force. Working men, he pointed out, are not yet ready-to be bound by laws imposed by foreign members. Premier Clemenceau maintained that on democratic principles the allies' proposals go much further than those of the Germans, since three-quarters of the delegates to the labor conference will represent the mass of the workers- He point ed out that the allies' program, in contrast to the German proposals, provides for voting by delegates and not by governments. First Meeting in October. Premier Clemenceau announced that the first meeting of the inter national labor organization would take place in October and that on all the evidence it is entirely su perfluous to hold a labor congress at Versailles. The German pro posal to adourn negotiations find ing the organization of such a con gress would be contrary, he said, to the interests of the workers them selves who, more than any others, desire to hasten peace to end the situation created by four years of German aggression. Measures of so cial progress, he added, would al ready have been in force if the peo ples of the allied and associated nations had not been compelled to subordinate them to the necessity of defending their independence. State Booze Hound Has Gun Duel With Pair With Whisky State Agent Samardick engaged in a running pistol fight early Sun day morning in the heart of South Omaha with two alleged bootleg gers. Harry Brown, 2603 N street, one of the pair, was captured at I wenty-tourth and JM streets bv Samardick. Samardick was standing at Twen ty-sixth and L streets shortly after midnight Saturday night, when he became suspicious of two colored men who were advancing toward him. They recognized him as an officer and in attempting to hurry away dropped three pints of whisky from under their coats. The bot tles broke and Samardick took after the pair. The men ran south on Twenty-sixth street. When ordered to halt, they turned on Samardick and fired several shots at him, he says. Samardick returned the volley and believes he hit the "other man," who dodged down an alley, while Samardick was arresting Brown. Brown had a pint of whisky under his arm when arrested. He was charged with illegal possesion of liquor and breaking glass in the street.' j By Mall (I yaar). Pally. $4.M; tMaay. $2 50) Dally and Sua., $1.50; wMMt Naa. awtaaa antia. LIVJ PROMOTERS OF STRIKE SIT IN ASHES OF FOLLY Sympathetic Walkouts Must Always Fail, Says Hon Gideon Robertson, Ca nadian Labor Minister. Winnipeg, June 1. Hon. Gideon Robertson, Dominion minister of labor, in a statement made to the press before leaving for Ottawa to (ay to confer with federal authori ties, said the promoters of the gen eral strike in Winnipeg "now sit in the ashes of their folly;" that 'sympathetic strikes must always fail," and that the Winnipeg strike "is the first rehersal of the play written at Calgary, where the one big union movement was launched last March. Mr. Robertson's statement was as follows: "The promoters of the general strike in Winnipeg now sit in the ashes of their folly. Something like 30,000 men and women were called out, professionally for the purpose of enforcing the recognition of the right of collective bargaining. In responding to the call the majority violated and repudiated their obliga tions to their own trades unions and their contract with their employers. Against Whole Community. "In a general sympathetic strike the force is directed against the whole community.. Because of the inconvenience. Joss and sintering imposed upon innocent people, sympathetic strikes must always fail. "Socialism lias chosen the one big union idea as a popular primrose path along which to lead the trade unionists, urging him to discard his honorable obligations and join the big show. "In March last at Calgary the play was written. The Winnipeg strike is its first rehearsal, with the main performance promised at a later date. The Winnipeg rehearsal has cost approximately $2,000,000 in wages lost in western Canada, and has proven the play to have been badly written and unpopular with the public and most of the per formers. "Employers must not mistake the outcome of the general sympathetic strike as a defeat of organized labor." -v . Toronto Strike Off. Toronto, June 1. Employes of the Toronto Street Railway com pany decided not to join the sympa thetic walkout called to aid striking workers here. The vote was 75,0 op posed to 250 in favor of striking. -Members of the metal trades coun cil were refused permission to ad dress' the car men. Many Lose Lives in Fire at French Movie Theater Valence-Sur-Rhone, June 1. Fire broke out today during the perform ance in a moving picture house here p.nd a laYge number of persons were killed or injured. Early this evening the list of dead had reached SO. the bodies of 53 children and 21 women having been found at that hour. The injuries of most of those taken from the buildings were slight. There were some 100 of these. National War Garden Commission Dissolved Washington. June 1. Dissolution o the national war garden commis sion, organized shortly before the entrance of the United States into the war to encourage the production of food through home gardens was announced tonight. Herr Urbig Leaves Paris. Paris, June 1. Herr Urbig, finan cial member of the German peace delegation, with Counsellors Arnem and Himmelsbach and eight others, left Versailles last night for Germany. Did Not Know Right Side Up As He Awoke In River Engineers Make Light of Learn That None of in Midnight Wreck at "When a fellow wakes up in the middle of the night and finds him self all surrounded by water, he doesn't know right away just what part of him is 'up' and which part is 'down,'" said John Schoening, jr. You might drown while you re get ting your bearings." John is from San Francisco and he was one of the soldiers who were submerged in Salt Creek when the troop train left the track at Ashland Sunday morning. Clad in blankets, niglit gowns, un derclothes and less, the wrecked heroes were brought back to Omaha and then taken to Fort Omaha hos pital. There they told of their vari ous experiences in the wreck. Of the five cars thrown into the river, three ,were sleepers and two were baggage cars. The sleepers re mained upright, with water standing from three to six feet deep in them. The soldiers were sent hurtling from their berths into a scrambled heap in the aisles. It was a cause for merry quips and hearty laughs, rather than of worry, for the engineers. They ' TWO CENTS. mm i 9 FIVE CARS SUDE IN RIVER; TROOPS AWAKE IN WATER Two Trainmen and 27 Soldiers Slightly Injured; Casual Taken to Ft Omaha Where Their Wounds Are Dressed; Men Returning From Overseas to Their Homes on Pacific Coast. Two hundred and seventy-six casuals, including fivc officers and one Y. M. C. A. secretary, all members of thf 557th Hoboken Casual company, narrowly escaped death, when five of the coaches bearing them from Camp Mefritt, N. J.f to Presidio, San Francisco, Cal., plunged down a 12 foot embankment two miles southeast of the Ashland, sta-, tion near C. E. Churchill's ranch into the creek at 1:30 Sun day morning and just below the spot where the Salt Creek empties into the Platte river. f Injured When Troop Train Goes in River; Are at Fort Omaha Following is the list of soldiers injured when U. S. troop train slid into Salt creek, near Ashland, Sun day morning: Harry B. Palmer, Company E, Los Angeles; cut foot, cut back, cut face, cut hand. E. L. Gray, Company B. Oakland, Cal.; tendons cut in leg, left wrist cut. T. R. McGrath, Company E; head cut. James M. Lemon, Company E, Oakland. Cal.; ankle injured. P. J. Kearns, Company D; back, hand, arm, leg cut. Arthur-Lindner, Company D, Ex eter, Cal.; right leg injured. Corp. Andrew Andre, Company F, Bakersfield, Cal.; broken nose, head injured, left foot badly cut. C. J. Coburn, Company E, Din uba, Cal.; injured about head.. C. D. Pledge, Company A, San Francisco, Cal.; right hand and arm injured. 4 James J. Cremin, Company C, Los Angeles, Cal.; head injured. Richard Simon, Company E, San Francisco; cut on both legs. Drogo Monovich, Hoboken casual company, Oakland, Cal.; injured on side and right foot. Orpheus J. Martinez, headquarters company, Alameda, Cal.; back in jured. John Schoening, Company A, Berkeley, Cal.; wrenched shoulders, cut hands. Rosso Battiste, Company D, San Francisco; cut hands. Clyde Croy, Spring Valley, Cal., ;"57th casual company; back wrench ed, foot and leg cut. Howard H. Harris, Company E, San Francisco; cut wrist and hand. Albert W. Hunt, Company D, Oakland, Cal.; cut about head. M. R. Zarubica, Company F;.leg injured. Gewrge L. Harris, Company E, San Francisco; cut on foot, two cuts in left side. Bee Snyder, Company A, Myrtle Point, Ore.; arm and head cut. George F. Reifel, Company A, As toria, Ore. Nicholas Masi, Company F, San Francisco. Ledford M. Smith. Company E, Los Angeles; both feet, both hands cut. Edmund C. Berry, Company, Montague, Mont.; both legs cut and bruised, back hurt. L. B. Ayres, Company F, Oak land, Cal.; legs cut. G. A. Peterson, Company A, Sac ramento, Cal., cut about head. Their Disaster When They Their Number Were Killed Ashland. bantered with one another and sang in cnorus. Where do we go trom here?" and "How're you going to keep 'em down on the farm," from the throats of dozens of water soaked soldiers in the wee sma' hours sounded a bit unusual. James Cremin of Los Angeles was in the middle- of a dream in which he was on board a torpedoed liner. He had just sutik below the surface of the ocean when he awakened to find himself just sinking below the surface of the Salt Creek. T. R. McGrath of Oakland says somebody pulled him to safety by his hair. "I was in a lower berth. WFien I awoke the berth was full of water and I was enmeshed in sheets that 'I had almost 'gone under'" when the fellow in the berth above me grabbed me by the hair and yanked me out. When I got my nose above water I was able to shift for myself. If it weren't for him I know I'd have gone west," said McGrath. Most of the soldiers freed them selves from the almost submerged cars by breaking the windows and crawling out. ? Fireman Otto Graylow of Lin coln, sustained a broken hip and Brakeman Beals also of Lincoln, was injured slightly. The accident was caused by a washout wjiich widened the rails at the point where the coaches pluged into the river. Graylow was taken to Lincoln on Burlington train No. 5 shortly after the accident. He lives just opposite the state capitol building in Lincoln. From Sunset Division. The men have all seen active serv ice. One hundred and eight of the heroes are members of the 25th en gineers, having spent more than 18 months in France. The majority of the remaining men were formerly members of the 41st or "Sunset" di vision. ' Many of the men are ordnance casuals. They were sent to this country as convalescents and organ ized into a casual company at Ho boken. First Lieutenant H. C Keenan is in charge of the engineers while Second Lieutenant V. B. Reed is in command of the remaining number of men. The various or- ganizations to which these men werj . attached were recruited in the far'" western states. . They were enroute to Presidio where they were to be , discharged. Cars Half Submerged. At 1 o'clock Sunday morning the Burlington special, bearing the men, passed through Omaha. Recent heavy rains had dislodged the rails from the roadbed near Ashland. The engine thundered safely past the danger spot but the following five coaches, containing nearly all the members of the1 engineering unit flew off the rails and into the creek below. The men were all sound r.sleep, when the accident happened. The cars were half submerged and nearly every particle of clothing . and equipment which this unit car ried with it was lost. Three coach- . es, a kitchen and baggage car were, -demolished. A temporary track was laid and th" four remaining coaches taken , hack to this city. At Ft. Omaha Hospital Col. J. W. S. Wuest, commanding' officer at Fort Omaha, is extending ever possible aid to the recuperat ing heroes, victims of the wreck. Clothing has been issued to the men who lost their equipment in the' wreck. They have all been taken to Fort Omaha where they are being cared for pending the reorganization of the train. The Red Cross, Woman's Motor corps and patriotic Omaha citizens hurried to the Burlington station and placed their machines at the dis posal of the men. Many expressed the desire to take the men to their homes but permission, was refused them by the officers in charge. The Red Cross is doing everything pos sible to make the men comfortable. It is believed that the men will re sume their journey sometime this morning. Had Accident Before. This is the second time the en gineering unit has suffered from ac cidents. The Agamemnon, convey ing the engineers overseas near the outbreak of the war, was rammed and badly damaged by the Von Steuben, a German ship converted into a transport, in midocean. For , 24 hours the crippled ship wallowee through a heavy sea with all lights on in constant danger of prfying U-boats. The engineers" have seen action on the Meuse-Argonne and Tou fronts. They also aided the British in th Epernay drive. So' generously were five of the convalescing heroes entertained at Galesburg, 111., that they forgot all about the train and consequently missed it. This proved to be very fortunate for them since by missing the train they escaped the wreck. The men ;;re Ordnance Sergts. E. J. Sandford, Ontario, Cal.; W. .D, -Farley, Prvts. H. D. Cay ford, W. B. Lewis and Valenzuela. Men and Officers of 88th Arrive in Newport News Newport News. Va.. Tune 1 The transport Mercury arrived Sat urday with 3,196 officers and men of the 88th division (Minnesota, North Dakota. Iowa and Illinois'). Briga dier William D. Beach, commander of the 176th infantry brigade,and elements of the 351st infantry regi ment, with casuals and convales cents, were aboard- VJ V i .i
